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The Middle East Could Be a Cradle of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

But in emerging growth markets, new access to even existing technologies (e.g., The company is now one of the largest mobile cash-transaction companies in the world — roughly 20% of the country's GDP passes through it. The fact that new markets are using technology to solve local and regional problems is no longer surprising.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Vijay Govindarajan Ravi Ramamurti. Competitors used the expensive CCD technology for cameras. There is a healthcare crisis in the U.S. In 2016, the U.S. Further Reading.